Oak Tree Media

The
Last of the Railroad Police, by Carl Moen

In the 1950s, Chicago was
a great railroad center, and its Proviso yard was the largest in the
world.

Times were hard in the
Eisenhower Fifties, and I had a young family. When I heard it would
pay $80 a month more, I had to take it on.

Looking back, it surprises
me that I lived through it all: the fights, the gun play, arson, even
a brush with the mafia. More dangerous were men so anxious to carry a
gun, they’d work the job for nothing.

All of this is true. Walk
with me down the tracks and I’ll show you what it was like to be the
Last of the Railroad Police.